Results 22,781-22,800 of 24,571 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Seanad: Sports Capital Programme (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: Promises were made by the Minister's colleagues.
- Seanad: Sports Capital Programme (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: I can name two clubs in Cork and Tipperaryââ
- Seanad: Sports Capital Programme (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy Martin Cullen, to the House. I am glad he is here and thank him for coming in on such a bad night. Last week he announced that he would not provide sports capital grants in 2009. This will affect many sporting and local community groups. It is bad news not just for sports funding but for the building of sustainable communities....
- Seanad: Sports Capital Programme (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator need not worry. I have been chairman of my own club for six years and secretary before that and know well the workings of the sports capital programme. We were lucky to have Jim Collins in my club. He knew the system backwards and could liaise with the Department in latter years because it was a tedious process and one needed people like him to do that. It was a tedious...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: Today was not the first day that happened.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: He is not anti-banking.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: He is not at all anti-banking.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: He is just telling the truth.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: What about the framework document?
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Leader to answer the question. Why can we not have a debate on the fundamental question?
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: Give us the answer.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: Give us the answer.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's throat was blessed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: On a point of order, on the basis of the Leader's remark, can I ask him whether the Minister will be in the House for tonight's Adjournment debate on this matter. If not, why not?
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: Could I ask the Leader to reply to my point of order, a Chathaoirligh? I have a matter on the Adjournment and I would like to know whether the Minister will be in the House, and if not, why not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: I join with Senators Fitzgerald, O'Toole and Alex White in appealing to the Leader to have a debate today on both the economy and the talks with the social partners. Were the Leader to make a case for the abolition of the Seanad, by not having a debate, he would be doing so today. Members must be relevant and must have a voice on behalf of those who put them in here. By not having such a...
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (29 Jan 2009)
Jerry Buttimer: I am in favour of it because it is most important. During his reign, the Minister might also look at the issue of spending between elections. In my humble opinion, that is a joke at the moment. There is nothing to stop a candidate spending thousands or hundreds of thousands of euro up to the day the election is called. When an election is called, however, we bring in a spending limit but...